Original title: PaddleOCR-VL: Boosting Multilingual Document Parsing via a 0.9B Ultra-Compact Vision-Language Model Direct link to PDF: https://ernie.baidu.com

Original title: PaddleOCR-VL: Boosting Multilingual Document Parsing via a 0.9B Ultra-Compact Vision-Language Model Direct link to PDF: https://ernie.baidu.com/blog/publication/PaddleOCR-VL_Technical_Report.pdf https://ernie.baidu.com/blog/publication/PaddleOCR-VL_Techni... Baidu claims state of the art performance on their own OmniDocBench (although some recent models like GPT-5 and Qwen3 are not evaluated) and strong results on olmOCR-Bench and Ocean-OCR-Bench.